While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of Web Services and others are dedicated to providing Web Services, few books show how to consume Web Services. This new book, Google, Amazon and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services, provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds. Using a decidedly hands-on approach, the authors show extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI in a variety of programming languages. Technology involved: Java, Perl, XML, XSLT, WSDL, SOAP, XML-RPC, UDDI, JavaScript, .NET, JSP, RSS.

Author Biography - Alexander Nakhimovsky

Alexander Nakhimovsky received a master's degree in mathematics from Leningrad University in St. Petersburgï¿½and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell University, with a graduate minor in computer science. He has been teaching computer science at Colgate University since 1985. He is the author (jointly with Tom Myers) of several books and book chapters, including JavaScript Objects, Professional Java XML Programming, and Professional Java Server Programming, J2EE Edition, as well as books and articles on linguistics and artificial intelligence.